Good art does not always hang in a gallery. It sometimes helps identify a business — as is the case in this month’s “Where In The Napa Valley Is?” contest, testing Napans skill at identifying objects up and down the valley.

A woman dressed in a blooming rose bud, a family and a tow truck with a bottle of wine on its hitch are this month’s clues to identify where they are.

Dragonfly

Upvalley in St. Helena, a portrait of a woman welcomes shoppers to Dragonfly at Main Street and Vidovich Avenue.

The boutique carries women’s clothing and accessories.

The signage features a woman with a short cropped hair style wearing a dress that looks like a flowering spring rose. Her outfit is discreetly complemented by dragonfly earrings.

The portrait is not specifically of one woman, according to the artist — Susan Brynner — who painted the piece of art that is the store’s logo. She also works part time at the store owned by her friend Judith Lang.

Brynner said the story behind the portrait is that it is supposed to be every woman. There are nuances that every female should be able to glean from the image, she added.

Brynner said the woman she painted does not have a name. The four-foot by five-foot business sign was painted last June and took her about three weeks, working on it off-and-on in her spare time, she said.

“I love to paint. I’ve done a lot of commercial illustrations, but I do prefer canvas and oils,” said the artist, who splits her time between the Napa Valley and New York.

Brynner discovered the wine country about 12 years ago when her daughter moved here from Carmel.

Brynner said Lang asked her to keep her eye open for a potential retail space where she could open a women’s clothing store in the Napa Valley. The entrepreneur Lang also has retail stores in Boulder, Colo. and Taos, N.M.

Many people in the valley know of Lang for her participation in the fashion show for cancer survivors staged annually by Queen of the Valley Medical Center.

Dragonfly has been open for about four years in St. Helena.

Clinic Olé

The logo captured at the Clinic Olé at 661 Main St., in St. Helena, is the same one that identifies all of its health care facilities in the Napa Valley.

Executive Director, Beatrice Bostick, who has been with the clinic for 12 years, estimated that the logo for their signage was done about 15 years ago.

The sign is a positive-negative elusion of a mother, father and child. Bostick said if you concentrate on the image long enough it looks like an angel. “A nice way of looking at it is the family in the logo is getting medical services with a guardian angel watching over them.”

The logo was created by a St. Helena artist, who has since moved to Southern California. Bostick’s research was unable to uncover the artist’s name by press time. The creative mind behind the logo did not charge the health care clinic for his creation.

Bostick said Clinic Olé sees 20,000 individuals for 60,000 visits each year for medical and dental services. The health care facility has been helping provide medical aid since 1972 in Yountville in a one-room clinic.

Today, Clinic Olé’s largest facility is in Napa on Pear Tree Lane. “We have a dedicated staff who enjoy what they do,” Bostick added.

Wine Garage

In Calistoga, hidden within what was once a 1940s gas station is the Wine Garage. Don’t expect a grease monkey offering to fill your gas tank, check the oil or add air to your tires. According to the business’s Web site the location was also once a pet supply store.

Today, the former garage is hip retail boutique selling wines priced within an “average Joe’s” price range.

The Wine Garage showcases 250 wines that are price under $25 from wineries all over California.

Wine Garage, on the east side of Highway 29, south of Lincoln Avenue, is the brainchild of Todd Miller and his wife, Joy.